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THEATRICAL TOPICS.
BOMB sayinq'b and ooinos
IN STAOELAND.
The RralUatlon of tha Ambition of Mr.
Itlrhartl Maoineld At Latt II It th
Ittt AmerUaa Actor Other Actora
of Not.
To tho grand gallery of figures hero
ic, fantastic auj poetic, which Mr.
Mansfield, with the hand and brain ot
genius, hta created, he hna now added
another. In this generation tew cre
ation! and few actora hare been 10 dli
cuittd, to praised anil io pursued as
this Cyrano do llorgcrac, and Mr. Mam.
field In the part. Although the plnr
has been acted, In American, at least,
but a few months. It la on everyone's
tongue. The day for which Mr. Mans
field has worked to bravely, to Insist
entljr and with such singleness ot pur
pote has arrived. Where Sir Henry
Irving stands In England Mr. Mansfield
stands with us. No caviling at his
methods or means, no exaggeration of
his faults can change this. The pro
duction of "Cyrano dt llcrgcrac" Is not
necetarlly tho crowning work of his
; career, and no matter how good It mny
- - be I hope there are many greater tri
umphs yet In storo for htm. Hut tho
point over which I can readily Imaglno
Mr. Mansfield most rejoices Is that tho
American people aro accepting him and
taking him to their botom at they
. have, In his lifetime at least, no other
actor of their own raco and country.
Why, tho way peoplo are talking about
Mr. MantDeld, he might have been
born In London or bctldo tho tacrod
Eolnol
It looks ns If Mr. nilletto has mado
another big hit In tho way of. comedy
writing. This tlmo ho It an adaptor, as
hd was to somo extent In his last farce,
"Too Much Johnson" It Is from tho
French, this last piece, and la called
"Became Bho I-oved Him So." It It n
comedy rather than a farco, although
. ' tho plot tends more toward laughter
, than any serious emotion. In It J. n.
Dodson, that wonderful actor, has
, again scored most notably. It waa
A prdduced recently at tho Ilotton Mu-
-
yonngtters were likely to do tn their
first plungo Into the etaitlcal drama.
Of course their tuccctt has not as
sumed any great proportions In to far
at popularity It concerned, but artis
tically they undoubtedly surprised
even their friends. Somo good Judges
of tho dramatic art think that Willie
Jefferson la destined to. develop Into a
comedian of great ability, and there are
others who think that Tom Jefferson
Is even more likely to mako a perma
nent success In a line of character parts
such as Hip Van Winkle. Of course
Joseph Jefferson, Jr., has only compar
atively a small port In "Tho Itlvnla,"
but ho mado enough of It also to show
that be has moro reason than his namo
for being on tho stago. Tho succoss of
HENUY MILI.EIt AND MABEL DKIIT
in Tin: MAHTi:rt.
(The Heconcltlatlon )
his offspring undoubtedly had much
to do with the speedy recovery of Jo
seph Jefferson, .8r. "The Matter,"
which was the 'prominent novelty of
Mr. Henry's Miller's last season east
and which ran for over tbrco months
nt the Garden Theater, New York, Is
by 0. Stuart Ogllve, an English dra
matist, previously unknown on this
tide ot the ocean. It was also Its first
production upon any stsge, for tho au
thor was a newcomer In tho dramatic
field, oven In bis own country, and wltli
bis provlous and first appeal tor pub
llfl approval, "Hypatla," which he
wroto for Ilecrbohm Treo, be had been
master" and brings him to tho verre o(
bankruptcy; sickness alto falls upon
the stubborn old man, and at last, de
serted even by the servants, hla Iron
will breaks, the wife returns, and with
the fortuno he has given her aa sil
ver wedding present tka saves him
from financial ruin. Tho daughter,
with the rescued husbanl, returns to
his side, and at the curtain falls the
ton, decorated with the cross, la march
ing by tho window, returning to the
softened father, who wants to welcome
him.
SCULPTOR. MANBFIELD'8 LATEST MA8TEII PIECE.
eaum by Charles Frohman's company.
A. Ilotton correspondent wrltca to mo
' ns follows concerning Mr, Olllette's 1st-
.'. est: "The gilt of the plot Is that Mra.
J .. Ollrcr Welt an amlabto. but high-
strung young person, who has Just
changed her condition from that ot
V spoiled child to that of young wife,
makes her husband's life a burden to
,, him with her cxploitvo Jealousy. The
, two aro all the time quarreling and
making up; at latt comes the time
when they quarrel without making up,
and look to dlvorca as tho only rctcuu.
, , They return by the samo train, but In
; ., separate compartments, to Mrs. West's
C?' " borne; the, to state her sad case to Ber
;' , parents; he, to defend himself, Somc-
' , how, the parents a most genial, united
f r " aRectlonato, exemplary old couple
1. tear of the two young people's Intend-
jj . . ... d arrival and of their quarrol beforo
,V " the latter do arrive, and hero Is where
' " ' the old, old trick comes In. The old
'.'- couple dotermlned to give the erring
" . -children an object lesion and so pre-
"' . tond to havo a quarrol of their own,
, making each other's life a very bill on
jfr' '' earth. Of course. It all endt well."
i AUco Nielsen hat taken Washington
by storm. It one may Judge by the
.. , t nenapipar criticisms. 'Tho Fortuno
J - Teller," the new Smith-Herbert comic
opera In which Frank Ferley Is Intro-
r during1 Miss Nleltin as a star, seems to
, " .havo been greatly Improved since It
. was originally Introduced. In Washing-
IU IUJ '...ul IffMilhil lliul iU. iur-
; bcrt has never written muslo of such a
high and yet-popular class. The critic
f i ' ot'the Times ssys on this point; "Aft
' , .'.. or heating 'Th.0 Fortune Toller" one Is
t .'- Inclined to confess that Mr. Horbort's
previous writings wero puerile. .He
f ,, . has composod catchy aire and dainty
, ballads and ensombles, together with
A ." ," Uuta finales' bt a most striking charae-
f, ' ter." When Alice Nielsen mado her
,, , first decj Impression In 'Tho Serenade"
H with tho Dostonlans I was qulto pre-
' ""' ' pared for tho announcement of an ear
ly starring tour, but her Immedlato and
"j, marked success In her first season Ui n
' surprise. to evorybody, for It li to hard
to suit n young woman of Miss Niel
sen's petlto type In a comic opera role.
But The Fortune Teller," while It
., may cot bo a wonderful opora, leomi
Km to fit her llko a glovo.
t The-suess of the Jefferson boys In
(l their father'a ample shoes has been one
',, fwis" ' tno surprises of the season. I con-
W fess that I went to the theater not ex-
ictly with fear and trembling, but with
dalnfnl mUclvlnn about what the
obliged to becomo the financial backer
ot his play to securo Its production.
Now ho is classed among the most
promising of their playwrights. John
Hare, for whom "The Master" was
written, hat presented It at the Olobo
Theater, London, and Edwin Terry haa
given a third ot Mr. Ogllvle'a plays,
"The White Knight," at Terry's Thea
ter, In both Instances theso produc
tions In London followed runs In this
country, the first named having suc
ceeded Martha Morton's "A Bacholor's
Humane," In which Sol Smith Itui
sell mado a successful scaioa here, and
the other having been preceded by
"Tho Olrl From rarii," which E. II
nice has been exploiting In America
during the pait tcason. Thomas Fa-
niCHAIlD MANSFIELD AB CYRANO.
ber, tho character assumed by Mr. lilt-,
ler, has been given the sobriquet of
"tho master" In his boyhood becauso
ot his' dominant nature. It has adhered
to blm through manhood, becauso It
applicability Increased with years. Ha
Is a self-made man who brooks no op
position either In builncts or at bis
boms, and has become the ruler of tho
financial market. He plans to marry
hla daughter to a favorite nephew and
to receive bis son as partner In the
firm. Tho daughter loves elsewhere
and the son desires to enter the army.
As they will not give up thotr plans
In favor ot his he turns them adrift
Tho daughter marries and her hus
band, a mining engineer. Is entombed
alive In a mining actdent Fabers
wlfo wants to go to ber daughter Id
her dlttreis. "The master" refuses to
allow her to do so and when sbo per
sists be tolls her sho csn never re
turn. The favorite nenhew robs "tho
rouline nit iuiis.
There Is ono rulo on tho books that
doesn't reach two members of tho Bal
timore team. It Is tho rulo In regard
to touting oft baits Intentionally.
Hughlo Jennings and Billy Kceler can
foul a ball almost any tlmo they want,
and do It without resorting to tho
bunt. They did It In a closo gamo
against tho Beds last season, and
against n pitcher lett cool and delib
erate than Stilt Bill Hill, tholr trick
might havo brought disaster to tbo
Beds. Several timet Jennings and
Kcoler wont to the plato bent on got
ting their baso on balls. Tlmo after
tlmo when Hill put tho ball over tho
heart of tho plate they would foul It,
In order to keep from having a atrlko
called. It was tho old Arlle Latham,
Illondle, Purccll and Mlko Kelly trick
ot leaving tho bad ono go by and foul
ing off the good ones. A rule was
passed years ago to cut oft thes'o tricky
players, and It was successful. They
used to foul 'cm by the bunting route,
and It was easy to tell whon they wcro
breaking tho rules.
Jennings and Kceler havo n way of
beating tho rulo. They don't foul
balls oft by bunting Tbo swing at
tho ball with all their might. They
cither "pull tho ball around" foul or
prop themselves so that tt will bo foul
ed to tho right.
In ono of their last Cincinnati games
they made Hill pitch about twice as
much as ho should. At one time at tho
bat Jennings fouled oft ten strikes.
Whllo (laffncy might havo suipoctod
that they wero trying to embarrass
Hill, It was a hard matter to say posi
tively they wcro doing It lritontlonally.
Ho should at least havo warned them.
Those who know the ability of Jen
nings and Kceler to hit a ball foul
when they want to know that thoy
work this trick. It Is an unfalrman
nor of playing. Tho- rulo was passed
In tbo first place becauso PurcelL,La
tham and Uio Into Mlko Kelly wero
about the only players who could do
It. Cbey had bad a monopoly on the
trick, and tho players of other teams
wero nt a disadvantage. Jennings nhd
Kceler now havo a hunch over othor
players. There should bo tome rulo to
reach them.
Captain Ewlng Insisted thnt Umpire
Oalfnoy should havo called them down,
Umpjro Gaffney Insisted that ho could
not do It becauso they did not bunt
tbo ball. Captain Ewlng claims tho
rule does not say anything about bunt,
log.
I'ca.lmUlle llanlon.
Manager Hanlon ot tho Baltlmoros
does not take a rosy view of tbo sea
son ot 1809. In a recent Interview he
sold; "If the National league circuit
would remain (ho camo as beforo thero
aro four Cities which must bo strength
ened. Thero are Brooklyn, New York,
Philadelphia and St. Louis. Ono thing
Is certain, the National league cannot
go along playing a losing gamo bo
cause certain towns nro lamentably
weak. Thero Is frightful expense at
tending the running nf n tmll Imth
-uu n ia uui iulr that a team which
makes money at home should bo com
pelled to carry along other clubs which
com to havo no good excuse for not
being strong and healthy. There Is
lots of good material In tho country,
and I think the tlmo has come when
It le noCcssary for weak teams to
broco up. If there Is not a bracing up
In certain points along tho line every
team In tho league will likely loso
monoy next year." Talk of weak
teams strengthening Is pretty but the
desirable talent that tho successful
teams carry for utility purposes can.
not be purchased.
roallth Cycle Maker, roondar.
Tho nalelgh Cyclo Company, ono of
the largest and oldest cycle making
concerns In England, haa gone Into the
honde of a receiver. For somo tlmo
It has been an open secret among tho
British trado that tho company has
been In financial difficulties, a plan
for reorganization will be submitted
to the stockholders. The banks forced
the concent to the wall,
SWSTOW1aTBJ
CUEESBY SUGGESTION
CALIPOP.NIA HA3 AN UP-TO-DATE
PARSON.
IUt. Dr. J. r. I'arpanlar llaiorts to
Jliaootlo Infill. he, , ,u,r ,
llrta About llafornu la ta TatUh
-Works Uondara.
Should a minister of the gospel prac
tice hypnotism? This li the rathir pe
culiar question which It being dlicusa
ed In church circlet n Fresno, Cal.
This agitation It the remit of leveral
remarkablo cures which I)r J. E. Car
penter, pastor of the South Methodist
church, hat effected by means of byp
notlsm. He has cured the clgaretto
habit, drunkenness and dyspepsia
three things which tho reverend gen
tleman declares do not yield readily to
preaching Dr. Carpenter hat been In
Fresno for the last three years, having
come from Stockton, where he was
psstor of the Orace Methodist Episco
pal church. Ilo has been very popular
anf his sermons have been character-
lf swit assuredly do. Why, take ft
drunkard, for Initanco. In nine coses
out of ten yea, ninety-nine out of rt
hundred you might preach to him un
til the crack of doom and you could not
Induce him to change his ways, to ro
torm, become a sober cltltcn and an
ornament to society. Preaching does
not reach him, but you give me five
minutes with that samo man and allow
me to get hint under the Intlucnco ot
suggestion, and I'll cure him.
"And right here," continued tho
clergyman, warming to his subject, "let
me tell you that I do not hypnotlio
that Is, except In rare cakes. I can hyp
notize and sometimes do, but In my
work I find It unnecessary to thorough
ly hypnotise any ono. You know when
a person Is hypnotised he Is uncon
scious of nil surroundings. Now, hardly
any ot those upon whom I hare oper
ated have been unconscious. I merely
get them under my control, put their
bodies In n relaxed condition and get
them under the Influence of suggestion.
I then tell them they have no further
detlre to smoke or drink, and thoy
have not Except In raro cases I do
not bellovo In thorough hypnotism."
tied by broadness and even radical
views. He has been enterprising and
progretilre, and under his pastorate
tho present bandsomo church tbo
handsomest In tho clty-wat built At
tho latt conference Itev. Mr. Carpenter
was aislmed to a chart e In New Mex
ico, and left a few days sgo for his
now field. When a correspondent re
ferred to the objections raised by some
of the townspeople about his hyp
notic feats-objections which are not
clearly defined, but still objections
the minister said rather warmly!
"Such people would burn witches.
There are people In this town today
who would burn witches yes, sir,
would burn witches, ror what was a
witch but s hypnotist!"
"Then you contend that It is per
fectly proper for a minister to hypno
tize tbit Is, becoming to his station
and all that!"
PAflTED ON HONEYMOON.
It has Just become known at Water
bury, Conn., that Jennie Elton Stevens
Mayo, wlfo ot Commodoro W, K. Mayo,
U. 8. N retired, of Washington, D. 0
had applied for divorce a few days ago
In the superior court, New Haven. De
cision was reserved. Tbo commodoro
was reported by counsel not to oppose
the petition. It Is said, but only to ro
duce the alimony to as small an
amount as possible. Commodoro Msyo.
In 1892, even then grown gray tn the
service, and retired lecauio ot age,
met Mitt Btovena In the Whlto moun
tains. He soon came to Waterbury
upon a visit and again met Miss
Stevens, a belle ot tbo city, who at 10
was still hcart-freo. Bho was the
COMMODOItE MAYO.
dauihter of Onrllle H. Btevcni, ajead
Ing manufacturer, who had held evsry
offlce In the gift of his townsmen, ox
cept that of mayor. Through her
mother. Miss Stevens was related to
thi Eltons and Waylandi, two of tho
"most dlillngnlshed and wealthy Water
buh families.
Society Xk-nm ,om..., .,..,, . ,
beif ot uor engagement to the veteran
commodore. The wedding was In
every way the most olaborato the city
bad ever known. Everything pointed
to a happy futuri ,,e,plt0 lh(J da.
pa1. i? H ot th contracting
parties. The bride drovo away laden
with elegant Jewels, gift, of hor bus-
Si I m Pr,nU W11 h "'D1
The bride and bridegroom expected to
' I ,?n wedlln trip and then to
permanently locate nt the homo of tho
commodore, 2J Iowa circle, Washing-
ton.
nt!rC.Lng .N,w Tork' '"ere was a
?. " ""Jo's hotn, Washington,
m. i WM Pf'tf'ted. She was
UB,.,. "i,"? "a lnfl "oddlng
Tf!tfr.r,b.eba.lm4 Un """'"a
"' ?B J'.P" tta"l'- The ro
" idM ? 0,"""", b7 "
1,000 Invitation, had been glvon. Mrs.
lZ Sown""1 "", Wrt "' h""" ""
br0 ,nnu cora"Iete'r. and Iho exclto
ment only served to make ber prostra
Uon more complete. frost
"Do you object to
It upon moral or
upon physical
grounder'
"Purely physical.
I have seen persons
undir hypnotlo In
fluence and I do not
think It Is or con
be good. But In the
cose of two evils
we sometimes have
to choose the les
ser." "How long havo
you been practicing
hypnotism?"
At the request ot Commodore Mayo,
Mr. Stevens, tho bride's father, went
to Washington, three weeks after the
wedding, and aeelng hta daughtsr's
condition, brought her home at once.
The trouble so weighed upon the
mind of Mrs. Mayo that the waa sent
to a Litchfield sanitarium.
Much surprise was caused on Feb.
Zl, 1891, when the commodore adver
tised that be would pay no bills of his
wife's contracting, Her family asserted
that ha had never been asked to do
so. In tho samo year (1894) Mr,
Btevena died.
Tho reason for ber separation from
Commodoro Mayo during their honey
moon haa never been made public
MH8. DOTKIN'S TRIAL.
The most oled murder trial tho Pa
clflo coast has bad oocaslon to witness
In recent years began when Mrs. Cor
delia Botkln waa arraigned for tho
murder ot Mra. John P, Dunning and
Mrs. J, D. Dean of Dover, Del, The
ease has many peculiar feature, which
made extradition from California to
Delaware Impossible of accomplish
ment for tho poisoned candy which
caused the death of tho two daughters
ot ex-Congrrtiman John P Pennington
was bought In Ban Francisco and malt
ed from there to Dover. The act Is al
leged to have been Inspired by Jeal
ousy, for It tt admitted that Mrs. Bot
kln and Mr, Dunning, a newspaper
man, had been Intlmato while tbo let
ter's wife was In tbo East Daniel
Ames, a handwriting expert of New
York, who was an Important witness
In the Fair will case, has declared that
Mrs. Botkln wrote the note accom
panying the drugged candy, and that
sho waa also tho author of anonymous
letters which warned Mrs. Dunning of
tier busband'a act ot Infidelity, The
druggist who told the arsenic has also
MHH.' 1IOTKIN.
Identified Mrs. Botkln as a purchaser
ot tho poison.
ratlin's Shotklnc Head.
The stepdaughter ot Samuel Harri
son, whose back. It Is alleged, was
broken by the unnatural father with
a club, died at New Martinsville, W.
Va., from the Injuries received. It is
thought Harrison will b lynched It
caught, as tho feeling agatntt htm is
virr bitter
Ing my hand close to the person's forJ
head, without even touching the pM
tlest I afterward studied mesmerism
and also hypnotism. My object tn prac
ticing hypnotism aa a minister la atroa,
ply to do good. Now I want It undeN
stood that I do not make a business of
It, but, as they say at the restaurant
It la merely 'on tho side.' My calling!
Is that ot a minister, but I beltsvo that
a minister should bo more than that jH
word ordinarily Implies, A true mln- fm
Istcr should be both a teacher and oj 17
healer, as Christ was. I have never rc- jjj
celved any money for any ot my treat- 8f
ments. A prominent lady whose daugh- m
ler I cured ot a lovo for liquor waa so M
grateful that she wanted to richly ro- iU
pay me, but I refused; not becauso I jfl
did not consider It legitimate, but be- Hfi
cause It was not my business. Now I n
have six and eight case, a day. There m
aro to young men watting for me now
poor boys, hopelessly addicted to cig
arettes. Practicing Is a great physical
strain on me. It depletes me. I don't
mind one or two cases, but six or eight
In one day aro too many."
Dr. Carpenter's cures have not been
confined to smoking and drinking. He
"Nearly all my life. I have alwaye
bad a latent power, which I never
called by any particular name. My
mother noticed the power when I waa
a child. Bho discovered that I could
cure a sick headache by merely pass-
has cured an affection ot the eye, dys
pepsia and a number of complaints ot
a nervous character. Ills fame boa
spread In a quiet way and peoplo from
different parts ot the state have trav
eled to be treated by him.
OirtL TAKBB A DUrtOLAil. j
Calmness on tho part of Miss Sarah j
Sandtord and the persuulve power, ot
i. shotgun In the hands ot her father,
Justice ot the Peaco Theodore Sand- I
ford, ended the career of a would-be
burglar early tho other morning at I
their homo In IUlph strict Belleville, 1
N. J, Miss Sandford waa awakoned
by unusual noises. She quietly got
out ot bed, and, after partly dressing,
made her way to her father'a room,
awakened him with aa little noise as
possible and explained mitten to him.
He listened and beard tho noises and
decided, like bis daughter, that a bur
glar was at work. He quietly procur
ed his shotgun and cautiously cropt
downstairs and to the front door. He
BAItAII SANDFOItD.
saw a man prying away with a cold
chlnl In an effort to forco open a win
dow. Juitlco Sandford covered the
working burglar with hla gun and ex
claimed: "Throw up your handi or I'll
shoot" The burglsr relied bit hand,
ai high above his head as he could.
Then he pleaded not to bo ahot. and
quickly obeyed orders aa Judgo Sand-
"'"''It'" '" "vrui'imriiiu u ' '
his back and commanded: "Now march
Into tho house and to my office," This
office Is used by tbo Judge as a court
room. There thu fellow was tried, 4
committed and turned over to a con
stable, whom his daughter brought to
the office,
Ulialtly Caanlballim.
Advices from Brlabsne, Queensland,
contsln a ghastly story ot cannibalism -
In the Oerman group of the Sulu I
Islandi. It appeara that a Queensland . I
trading cutter, the Sea Ohost, with , 1
three white traders and a crew ot teren J K
natives, was boarded by tho treach- i
erout natives of the Island ot Baku,
who murdered two ot tho whites and
six of the blacks. Their bodlos, It I,
asserted, were then dressed for a can- -
nlbal feast In tho meanwhile the na
tives found a keg ot rum, and soon they
were all helplessly drunk. JJefore they
recovered from their i tupor tho surviv
ing whlto man alia the native seaman
managed to unloose the ropes with j
which they were bound and escaped In '
a small boat, from which thoy wiro
picked up hr a Brltlib ship.